Daniel Sterbuleac

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Disaster Prediction and Alerts Would Thrive in the Free Market

08/23/2025 Mises Wire Daniel Sterbuleac

People (including most mainstream economists) assume that only a government bureaucracy can effectively deal with predicting disasters and alerting people in harm's way. However, this is an area of enterprise that is ripe for free markets.

Good Causes, Brand Trust, and Profits: Why YouTuber’s Private Charity Is Wrongly Criticized

02/17/2023 Mises Wire Daniel Sterbuleac

When Jimmy Donaldson, better known on YouTube as MrBeast, paid for a thousand people to have cataract surgery, the usual suspects in the media panned him and questioned his motives.

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